drugs

A drug is a substance which may have medicinal, intoxicating, performance enhancing or other effects when taken or put into a human body or the body of another animal and is not considered a food or exclusively a food.

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ZME Science posts about drugs

Straws that change color when exposed to date-rape drugs

Tue, Dec 11, 2012

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After going to a Boston club a few years ago, Mike Abramson, now a Worcester Polytechnic Institute grad, had a few sips from a drink and immediately felt intoxicated. According to him, his drink had been spiked with drugs. The event prompted him to do something about it, and later inspired him to design plastic [...]

Drag-and-drop and synthetic DNA self-assembly makes drug design easier

Thu, Dec 6, 2012

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Researchers at  Parabon NanoLabs have developed an unique tool that allows scientists to use an intuitive drag-and-drop computer interface, much like in any other 3-D CAD software like Catia or AutoCAD, together with  DNA self-assembly techniques, to develop and test new drugs much faster. Called the  Parabon Essemblix Drug Development Platform, the tool can be used to design molecular pieces [...]

Sleeping pills might put you to bed for good: linked with higher death risk

Tue, Feb 28, 2012

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According to a recently released study authored by American physicians, sleeping pills are  linked to a more-than fourfold risk of premature death. If that wasn’t enough, the study goes on to state that people who take high doses are associated with a  35-percent increased risk of cancer, compared to non-users, although a valid explanation as to why this happens [...]

Smart kids more likely to take drugs in adulthood

Tue, Nov 15, 2011

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A new study which capitalized on an extensive ongoing survey, shows that children with high IQs, especially girls, are more likely to indulge in illicit drug use in their 30′s than people with lower IQs. Dr. James White of Cardiff University and his team of researchers used data gathered from the British Cohort Study, an ongoing [...]

Meditation stronger than morphine and drugs

Wed, Aug 3, 2011

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Meditation can have pain reliefing effects much greater than even morphine, one of the strongest drugs, according to a recent study. We are only beginning to understand the deep effects that meditation has on our bodies, and researchers are baffled, to say the least. It calms and relieves pain with unbelievable efficiency, reducing the pain [...]

Magic Mushrooms can treat depression, anxiety and addiction, study shows

Wed, Jun 15, 2011

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Researchers have found that the mystical experiences obtained by volunteers under the psychoactive substance found in hallucinogenic mushrooms has lead to a substantial improvement of their lives. Although a lot of similar studies have been made showing the beneficial long term effects which come with ingesting psilocybin mushrooms, be it spiritual or physical, this particular [...]

Two hours worth of gaming is like snorting a line of coke…therapist says

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

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It’s ignorance like this that never sees to baffle me. Steve Pop is an overnight notorious psychotherapist who, like most of today’s center stage and tomorrow’s props, became famous after stating live on BBC Radio that “spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces [...]

Researchers find cocktail that delays aging

Thu, Feb 11, 2010

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Nobody wants to grow old, but at least at this point in our evolution, it’s unavoidable. Growing old however, is relative; it depends on your lifestyle, genes, etc. Recently, researchers from McMaster University claimed they have figured out a cocktail of ingredients that has a significant effect in delaying the aging process. Their findings were [...]

Of pain and marijuana

Mon, Feb 1, 2010

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The sun begins to ooze off outside of Birmingham, England. It’s tea time. A woman stands alone in her house, making herself a nice warm cup. After the tea is done, she stirs a half spoon cannabis in her tea, in an attempt to seek relief from pain and spasms caused by her multiple sclerosis. [...]

9 reasons why there wasn’t stress in the good old days

Mon, Jul 6, 2009

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Nowadays, people seem to be more and more stressed, even average people that at least apparently don’t take big gambles. Researchers have put a lot of time and money into the study of this problem, and came up with a whole lot of theories, but really, don’t let those fool you. Here’s the real deal, [...]

In Madrid and Barcelona cocaine is in the air

Sun, May 17, 2009

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It’s quite impossible not to be aware of the fact that someone is smoking marijuana somewhere around you because of its particular smell. However, who would have suspected that the air people breathe in a certain area of a city could in fact hide traces of 5 powerful drugs in it? This is what researchers [...]

US and Brazil scientists team up to show we’re all pot heads deep down

Tue, Apr 21, 2009

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It seems you can blame everything on drugs, as researchers show that the human brain manufactures proteins that act on specific receptors in the same way that marijuana does; those receptors are actually situated in the brain itself. This discovery was published online in the FASEB journal, and Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of the journal [...]

Agression just as good as sex and drugs

Wed, Jan 16, 2008

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Whoa there! I mean sometimes just about everybody feels the need to be agressive but…. agression just as good as sex? That sounds a bit weird. But that’s just a way of thinking about things. The study is about the fact that the brain processes agression as a reward offering insights into our propensity to [...]

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